Category: College Articles

n African Solution for Africa?s Poverty November 10, 2004 by Michael Oluwatuyi Blessed is he who considers the poor. (Ps. 41:1) At the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than 1.1 billion people theworld over are living in ???extreme??? poverty. This is a category created bysocial scientists indicating that people at this dire level of…

The Milky Way is quite large so you would expect it to weigh lot and you??™re right, it does. The Milky Way??™s mass is 200 to 600 billion times that of the sun. This number came about by counting all the stars and assuming they all weigh about the same as our sun. The mass…

Poverty and Rightful Obligation According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, one billion people are currently living in a state of chronic hunger. This means that approximately one out of every six people on earth are undernourished and unable to access enough food to produce the amount of energy needed to…

At age 13 Merry and Mally had experienced almost being murdered and fighting a bad guy all while dealing with boy problems. The Midnight Twins, by Jacquelyn Mitchard, is about two twins, Merry and Mally. Mally can see the future and Merry can see the past. In order to over come evil the twins have…

Politics and Poverty Today there is a split in American politics on how to combat poverty. Throughout history, how America combats poverty has changed depending on what party is running the government. There has been a number of different parties however, Republican, Democrat, The Bull Moose Party, and other various ones. However, these views can…

Abraham Maslow??™s hierarchy of needs is a well-known humanist theory. The concept involves five common human needs that must be satisfied in order to achieve a sense of fulfillment. Maslow??™s theory is organized into a series of five concepts which are represented as a pyramid. The base of the pyramid consists of human physiological needs,…

Poverty and Children in the United States Kimberly Belt University of Phoenix Sociology January 24, 2009 Poverty and Children in the United States The United States is known as the richest country in the world. When poverty is mentioned most people think about third world countries and the commercials on T.V advertising for sponsors. Most…

The Metamorphosis The writer of a popular short story titled The Metamorphosis was written by Franz Kafka in 1912.Kafka was born into a Jewish middle-class German speaking family on July 3, 1883 in Prague, Bohemia now known as Czech Republic. Kafka wrote many pieces but was best known for The Metamorphosis, and his creation of…

Background: Two third of Nepalese people (66.6 %) are involved in agriculture exploiting only 21% of cultivable land for their livelihood. Majority of the farm families are semi-literate or illiterate and scattered in rural settlements. An increase in population by 2.2% annually is producing additional labor force in the national labor market. Average size of…

The Mercy of Memory: The Known and the Unknown in Ted Hughes??™ Birthday Letters and Howls & Whispers For years after Sylvia Plath??™s death, Ted Hughes, her estranged husband and executor of her literary estate, kept himself away from the critical fray that erupted over Plath??™s legacy. Although he was demonized terribly by Plath??™s fans…